[ale] FC2 install quickies

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, bim wrote:

> t,
> 
> What did not work correctly? Would you mind expanding
> on the "disk/machine combo" with a mobo spec, etc.,?
> It would help us "in advance."  Also-
> model of Nvidia card, etc.
> Your question seems interesting, but even Inspector
> Cleusau would need more than this...

Inspector Cleusau will have trouble with me _every_ time I get that 
obscure. My deepest appologies, because I wasn't thinking at all clearly. 


What _didn't_ work at all was the sound cards; one a via based chipset on 
the motherboard, the other a PCI card. I was overlooking the obvious and 
simplest possible solution to a computer conflict - pull one of the 
offenders out of the way! (After 20 minutes on the web I had to go and 
remember that solution - I am feeling deeply embarrassed about this) I 
killed the via chipset by way of the bios - and everything works lovely.

Now, it would be just lovely if somewhere on the web a HOW-TO exists which 
addresses manually configuring sound card(s) when the hardware probing 
doesn't work quite as expected, or not at all. I'll be working on that for 
some time I suspect.


The comment with respect to the NVidia card was intended as a throwaway - 
just in case something had changed in a big way with respect to these 
cards and Linux and people on this list had heard of it. After obtaining 
the appropriate driver from NVidia, installing it, and testing the 3-D 
acceleration stuff, This subsystem works and appears to work well. 


Again, my appologies to the group for an unusually obscure request. 

> 
> --- tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 
> > 
> > For better or worse, I've put Fedora Core 2 on a
> > spare disk/machine combo, 
> > and now I'm going through the find/fix cycle of
> > things that didn't _quite_ 
> > work out correctly.  I'm heading out onto the WWW,
> > but just in case 
> > somebody has a great lead or already solved
> > something... 
> > 
> > For the NVidia card - I already know to head over to
> > the vendor's site and 
> > rattle around. Aggrivating but not fatal.
> > 
> > There is a built-in sound system and a pci card
> > system. Both are detected 
> > by the hardware probe (I can check back and get the
> > labels if needed), but 
> > neither is successfully configured. Anybody know of
> > a good source of sound 
> > configuration fu for placing into /etc/modules.conf?
> > After dinner I'll 
> > probably try pulling the pci card and just
> > configuring the onboard stuff 
> > to see if it works ok. (RH9 the onboard sound just
> > didn't cut it.)
> > 
> > Other than these two known issues, so far, I'm
> > impressed enough. 
> > 
> > Thanks for your time in advance!
> > 
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